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What are some of your most useful or favorite terminal commands?
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How does this even work? I get the redirection part, but how is the command executed in a detached state?
()creates a subshell, and&runs the command in background. The$@means everything after the first argument, so the<command>is executed like a normal command. I am not sure why this works, but it has worked more consistently thannohup,disown, and it's a lot shorter than most other solutions.the last & is like doing "command &". d is a function that takes argument and $@ is usually the first argument